Remember 2009?

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(11-21-2015, 01:21 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: The offensive spiral started after Chris Henry was injured against the Ravens.

Yep.  They destroyed the Bears that year, and Henry was a big reason why.  When he was gone, there was no one to stretch the defense.  

Another contributing factor was that teams adapted and began to stop the Bengals "#74 is eligible" unbalanced line play where Ced Benson was abusing defenses on cutbacks.  My arguement that season was they needed a pass option from that formation to back off safeties, but it never happened.  

I don't think opposing defenses have "solved" Hue by any stretch.  He is far less predictable than Brat, but I need to see the offense start attacking down the field.  There are too many weapons on this offense.  Find their weakest cover option and exploit it.  I don't care if you only keep 5 linemen in and a back, but spread teams out and attack them.  If they are going to try and get Hill going, I suggest we see more formations with Hewitt because Hill is simply better at reading off a fullback.  Have some pass options out of this formation and have Gio run it as well out of this formation so as to avoid predictability.